It is the fifth contingent of Kenyan police to arrive on the violence-battered island since the start of the UN-backed police mission. The 230 police offers...
The emergency landing of a Nigerian military plane in western Burkina Faso has reignited tensions between Abuja and the Alliance of Sahel States, or AES. In...
A hundred schoolchildren freed after being abducted in northern Nigeria last month were welcomed home on Monday at a ceremony in Minna, the capital of Niger...
DRC President Tshisekedi accuses Rwanda of violating peace agreement the day after it was signed. In an address to parliament on Monday, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi...
A growing movement is reshaping the way Africa is perceived internationally. “Narrative sovereignty”—the right of countries to define and defend their own stories—is quickly becoming one...
The paramilitary group claimed on Monday that it had taken control of the strategically important oil field at the border with South Sudan. Heglig is also...
After more than two weeks in captivity, 100 students kidnapped from their school in Nigeria have been released. On November 21, more than 300 hundred people,...
At least 17 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in an inflatable boat died when it capsized south of the island of Crete, Greek authorities...
Benin’s President Patrice Talon has thanked army leaders for helping to defeat an attempted military coup in the West African nation. He also vowed that the...
A coup that was announced in Benin on Sunday has been “foiled,” the country’s interior minister said in a video on Facebook. “In the early morning...